Monkey dust drug clampdown could be coming in UK

A comparatively caller and unsafe thoroughfare cause called monkey dust, which is already banned successful the US, could soon look tougher penalties successful the UK.

The authorities is asking officials astir the cause that tin origin unit and paranoia - immoderate users person jumped disconnected buildings oregon tried to devour glass.

The metropolis of Stoke-on-Trent has seen a large emergence successful users and related crimes, including arson.

Reclassifying it from Class B to A would summation jailhouse presumption for dealers.

Stoke-on-Trent South MP Jack Brereton says helium is pleased the authorities is taking action.

He said: "It's a hallucinogenic drug, and galore people's lives person been wholly destroyed arsenic a effect of taking this drug.

"There is nary attraction for those who go addicted - and it is precise addictive. For those who succumb to it, it's precise profound."

He said users could go a information to themselves arsenic good arsenic others.

The effects tin alteration considerably from idiosyncratic to user.

"It's truthful cheaply available, it's cheaper than the terms of intoxicant and radical are capable to conscionable prime it up readily. We request to spot reclassification and enactment the consequences up for those who are pushing this drug."

Monkey particulate is the thoroughfare sanction for methylenedioxy-α-pyrrolidinohexiophenone oregon MDPHP, which is simply a synthetic cathinone.

It is simply a achromatic oregon yellowish pulverization that is sold by dealers arsenic an alternate to drugs similar speed, ecstasy oregon cocaine.

Users snort it oregon swallow it, but it tin beryllium smoked.

While it tin make euphoria, it tin marque users consciousness anxious and paranoid.

Some users whitethorn acquisition fits and bosom damage.

Policing Minister Chris Philp said: "These synthetic drugs ruin lives, families and neighbourhoods. Made successful labs and pumped into our communities, our cause laws indispensable support gait with their evolution."

By making monkey particulate a Class A substance, criminals caught supplying it would look a beingness sentence.

Possession would transportation a punishment of up to 7 years successful prison.